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SeerSolutionzQuality and Business Excellence Manager
Jan. 2024Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAs a Quality & Business Excellence Manager, I am responsible for overseeing and optimizing various aspects of operations to drive efficiency, quality, and client satisfaction. My day-to-day responsibilities include: Strategic Planning: Collaborating with executive stakeholders to define business objectives and develop strategies for achieving them through technology and process improvements. Project Management: Leading technology projects from conception to delivery, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, timelines, and budgets. This involves defining project scopes, creating documentation such as project approvals, technical documents, and transition documents, and engaging with internal and external stakeholders. Quality Assurance: Ensuring that client requirements are met with high quality by communicating clear requirements to development teams, managing risks throughout project lifecycles, and monitoring project performance against defined metrics. Team Leadership & Development: Providing direction and support to cross-functional teams, fostering a positive team atmosphere, resolving conflicts, and facilitating professional development opportunities. Continuous Improvement: Proactively identifying opportunities for process optimization and implementing best practices to drive ongoing improvement in operations and client satisfaction.
NAGRASoftware Engineering Manager ( Dev, QA, Infra, DevOps & Cloud)
Jan. 2023 - Jan. 2024Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaTeam Leadership: Provide effective leadership to the engineering team, including setting clear goals, providing guidance, and fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment. Manage and develop team members, including conducting performance evaluations and supporting their professional growth. Technical Expertise: Possess strong technical knowledge and expertise in the relevant engineering field to effectively guide and mentor the team. Stay up-to-date with industry trends, advancements, and best practices to drive innovation and quality in engineering projects. Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with other teams, such as product management, design, and quality assurance, to ensure seamless coordination and alignment of goals. Foster effective communication and collaboration across departments to drive the successful development and delivery of products or solutions. Stakeholder Management: Engage and manage relationships with stakeholders, including executives, partners and clients. Understand their needs, provide regular updates on project progress, and address any concerns or issues that arise. Process Improvement: Identify areas for process improvement and efficiency gains within the engineering team. Implement and optimize processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance productivity, quality, and delivery timelines. Risk Management: Identify and manage potential risks and challenges related to engineering projects, such as technical obstacles, resource constraints, or timeline pressures. Develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans to minimize the impact on project outcomes. Strategic Planning: Contribute to the development and implementation of engineering strategies and roadmaps in alignment with overall organizational goals. Provide input and insights on technical feasibility, resource requirements, and potential opportunities.
NAGRAEngineering Manager - DevOps & Cloud
Dec. 2021 - Jan. 2023Bengaluru, Karnataka, India● Lead and organize Transversal team, whose mission is to provide DevOps tools, infra and best practice to the department, including System Validation staged infrastructure.
● Providing a continuous delivery and integration pipeline, infra and strategy to deploy on the Cloud, release management, including common and staged environment to run automatic tests, monitoring, and troubleshooting of department infrastructures.
● Developing people, processes, strategy, fostering innovation, and enabling teams in successfully implementing DevOps best practices in the department and beyond.
● Leading a cross-site Agile team, and collaborating with peers and management to drive adoption of DevOps culture in the department and beyond.
● Account for the continued availability of services and for the team following Agile processes (SCRUM), team velocity, and results with quality.
● Work for cohesive and standard procedures around DevOps, Quality, and Release Management.
● Develop comprehensive project plans that merge customer requirements with company goals and coordinate various managers and technical personnel during all project phases, from initial development through implementation.
● Monitor project progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables.
Confederation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium EnterprisesState President - SIC CIMSME
Mar. 2021 - Feb. 2022Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Wipro DigitalSenior Solution Architect - DevSecOps
Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2021Bengaluru, Karnataka, India● Working with SMEs, the sales team and the GBLs and practices to qualify and manage RFPs.
● Working on handling RFI, RFQs, and RFPs around open source strategy, application modernization, cloud migration, and enterprise transformation.
● Making Work breakdown processes, resource loading, effort estimations.
● Engaging with customers and building value propositions and business cases around technology transformation.
Total DevOps CommunityCommunity Contributor
Jun. 2020
Confederation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium EnterprisesState Convener Karnataka SIC CIMSME
Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2021Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaConfederation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (CIMSME) and Centre of Excellence for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CEIIE) is unit of International Council of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering and a registered corporation in Delaware USA International Council of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering Inc. Confederation is a national business network of 5,528+ leading entrepreneurs. Founded in recent past by a group of young entrepreneurs, Confederation enables business owners to learn from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life. We educate, we transform, we inspire and we offer invaluable resources in the form of national events, leadership-development programs, an online entrepreneur forum and executive education opportunities, among other offerings designed for personal and professional growth. At its core, Confederation is a collection of like-minded entrepreneurs focused on business growth, personal development and community engagement. In addition to our mission, vision and core values, our national makeup is comprised of nearly 5,528+ individual member stories.
Simpliv LLCChief Operating Officer (COO)
Sep. 2018 - Jan. 2019Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaWas part of the core team as an advisor on ideation, strategy, and planning.
A3Gate Security Solutions Pvt LtdHead of Engineering - Infra & DevOps
Aug. 2018 - Feb. 2021Bengaluru, Karnataka● Managing a delivery team to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries.
● Provide technical leadership in design, implementation, defining technical evaluation criteria for products, addressing potential risk, technology selection, and determining approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in a coherent systems design and operations.
● Oversee daily activities of the delivery team and provide direction and guidance as needed.
● Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements.
● Ensure that team maintains a high level of competence and operational excellence.
● Drive and mentor high-performance engineering teams, product owners and engineering managers, provide thought leadership across each of these functions to bring best efficiencies and quality.
● Serve as primary contact for customer inquiries and concerns.
● Make critical business decisions to meet customer expectations.
● Managing complete project life cycle & constraints – scope, quality, schedule, budget, risk, resources, and deliverable and escalations thereby synchronizing client expectations
AccentureApplication Development Manager (Sr. Technical Architect - DevOps)
Jun. 2018 - Sep. 2018Bangalore, IndiaDevOps Architect - DevOps Capability team of Accenture
Total DevOps CommunityCommunity Founder
May. 2017 - Jun. 2020Bangaloreemail: sid.totaldevops@gmail.com Total Devops is an emerging global provider of DevOps consulting and training services. Established in 2017, with Headquarters in Bangalore, India. We are a team of DevOps experts having an industry experience of more than 12 years. Total DevOps is a professional service organisation providing consulting services, online and classroom trainings in DevOps domain. We bring in huge experience across industry verticals and geographies which make us confident enough to put our neck into the stake when it comes to achieving envisaged benefits and values. email: sid.totaldevops@gmail.com Major Role and Responsibilities:
Executing the company’s business plans according to the business model
Day to day administration and operation of the business
Responsible for daily, quarterly or other periodic measured results
Responsible for production, research and development and marketing
Involved with strategic planning for the future and establishing initiatives to expand the organisation's product lines or markets
DXC TechnologyDevOps Architect
Apr. 2017 - May. 2018Bangalore, IndiaBuilding DevOps capabilities and Automation labs within the organization by implementing various tools for Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and Continuous Assessment (CA) for multiple accounts
• Building the Agile & DevOps practice within the organization – thereby training & coaching teams on Agile & Scrum principles along with DevOps concepts.
• Building POCs to showcase organizational capabilities on various DevOps maturity and helping clients to understand benefits. • Managing overall Project / Support Management deliveries inclusive of projects, resources, processes and operations.
• Analyze project business requirements to understand individual user stories at a granular level – in turn making sure of project scope & schedule.
• Contributing to practice build & growth with recruitment drives and human resource capital management.
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseDevOps Architect / DevOps Consultant
Feb. 2016 - Apr. 2017Bangalore, IndiaBuilding DevOps capabilities and Automation labs within the organization by implementing various tools for Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and Continuous Assessment (CA) for multiple accounts
• Building the Agile & DevOps practice within the organization – thereby training & coaching teams on Agile & Scrum principles along with DevOps concepts.
• Building POCs to showcase organizational capabilities on various DevOps maturity and helping clients to understand benefits. • Managing overall Project / Support Management deliveries inclusive of projects, resources, processes and operations.
• Analyze project business requirements to understand individual user stories at a granular level – in turn making sure of project scope & schedule.
• Contributing to practice build & growth with recruitment drives and human resource capital management. Great feelings to be a part of the awesome DevOps/Agile practice team. Handling a team of almost 12-14 really amazingly talented people (Junior and Senior resources). Main role/responsibility is to groom them. Taking sessions on DevOps tools/technologies, mentoring them.Working on all the latest tools/technologies needed for DevOps. e.g. Git, Jenkins, Maven, Sonar, Nexus, Vagrant, Docker, AWS, Python, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Linux, ruby on rails etc. Main focus areas are Deployment tools (Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Rundeck), CI tool (Jenkins/Bamboo), Monitoring tools Nagios setup and configuration, Cloud computing and virtualization (AWS etc.).
Thomson ReutersLead Software Configuration Engineer (DevOps)
Oct. 2013 - Feb. 2016Thomson Reuters, BangaloreWorking as a Lead SCM Engineer on many different tools / technology such as TFS, Ant, Tomcat in Linux, Windows envs.
Thomson ReutersSenior Build and Release Engineer
Apr. 2012 - Sep. 2013bangaloreEnvironment/Skills => TFS, Ant, Solaris, Linux, Websphere, Tomcat Role and responsibilities =>
• Responsible for performing day-to-day Build and Deployment activities for DEV and QC Environments. Resolve the build breaks and fixing the deployment issue if any.
• Interacting with DEV and QA teams to make the stable build in various environments and working with teams to resolve the issues.
• Responsible for Raising the Requests and Preparation for the Monthly Releases for Client and Production Environment.
• Analyze, prepare a Design and Developed tools/Scripts in order to improve/automate the current Deployment/Maintenance Process.
• Process Implementations and Automation for Build and Release Activities.
• Project Administration of version control system like TFS/VSS: e.g. creating accounts, permissions, group management, group creation, version control permission management, managing source artifacts (branches and merges) for various releases.
Thomson ReutersBuild/Deployment Engineer
Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2012BangaloreResponsible to handle all the Software Configuration Management and Release Activities for the team during India hours.
• Responsible for performing day-to-day Build and Deployment activities for DEV and QC Environments. Resolve the build breaks and fixing the deployment issue if any.
• Interacting with DEV and QA teams to make the stable build in various environments and working with teams to resolve the issues.
• Responsible for Raising the Requests and Preparation for the Monthly Releases for Client and Production Environment.
• Analyze, prepare a Design and Developed tools/Scripts in order to improve/automate the current Deployment/Maintenance Process.
• Process Implementations and Automation for Build and Release Activities.
• Project Administration of version control system like TFS/VSS: e.g. creating accounts, permissions, group management, group creation, version control permission management, managing source artifacts (branches and merges) for various releases.
First American (India)Software Configuration Engineer
Feb. 2007 - Mar. 2010BangaloreVC++, VB Script, FAF framework, MS SQL Server 2000/2005,I.E.5.0,IIS 6.0, Windows Server 2003.
• Used to build VC++ code through visual studio and .Net code using Nant and creating a setup.exe using InstallShield and deploying existing FAST application on integration servers (IIS, DLV etc.)
• Automated the FAST build and deployment process (daily or weekly build)
• Analyzing, fixing the bugs, troubleshooting, resolving the configuration issues and testing.
• Setting up of new build machine Environment.
• Responsible in managing DB Servers (DB Backup, Restoring etc.)
• Project Administration of version control system like TFS/VSS: e.g. creating accounts, permissions, group management, group creation, version control permission management, managing source artifacts (branches and merges) for various releases.
• Gathering, tracking and supplying of all the tools that are required to develop and build a particular piece of software.
C-DAC (Formerly NCST)Student Diploma In Advanced Computing (DAC), Computer Science
Aug. 2006 - Jan. 2007BangaloreCentre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is the premier R&D organization of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT) for carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas. Different areas of C-DAC, had originated at different times, many of which came out as a result of identification of opportunities.
SiemensTechnical Trainee
Aug. 2005 - Jul. 2006BangaloreProject Name: Project Estimation Tool
Responsibilities: System analysis and design along with Coding.
Windows XP,ASP, HTML, VB Script, Java Script , Oracle
Siemens Technology IndiaProject Trainee
May. 2005 - Aug. 2005BangaloreResponsibilities: System analysis and design along with Coding.
Technology Stack: Windows XP,ASP, HTML, VB Script, Java Script , Oracle
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